Category: Stories
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My newborn son had a heart attack at 16 hours of life that he narrowly survived.
A San Diego mother shares how UC San Diego’s maternal mental health team carried her family through her newborn son’s cardiac crisis, and what losing that care would mean.
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When I was pregnant, I was severely depressed. I couldn’t envision myself bonding with my baby…
A mother shares how severe depression in pregnancy nearly took everything, and how her UC San Diego reproductive psychiatrist helped her find her way back to her baby.
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She loved her baby more than words… She felt overwhelmed, exhausted, isolated, and consumed by guilt for emotions she never expected to have.
She loved her baby more than words and still felt overwhelmed, isolated, and consumed by guilt. Her story shows why specialized maternal mental health care matters.
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…we should not have to be fighting back against our own psychiatry department and health system.
I am both a patient and a provider of UC San Diego Health. In a political environment where we already have our federal government attacking science, academia, and mental health, we should not have to be fighting back against our own psychiatry department and health system. Advocating for ourselves, our colleagues, and our patients is…
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…after experiencing a traumatic childbirth and navigating the challenges of becoming a new mother while continuing my career in healthcare, finding a psychiatrist I could truly trust was invaluable. …
After a traumatic childbirth, a healthcare worker and new mother found a psychiatrist she could truly trust at UC San Diego. Her story of why that care must stay.
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Reproductive mental health care is not optional or “extra.” It is essential. When mothers are supported, families are supported.
A patient explains why reproductive mental health care is essential, not extra: when mothers are supported, families are supported.
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We are the vulnerable population you swore to protect, and we will suffer the most from this unfair and cruel policy…
A patient’s testimony on losing her UC San Diego psychiatrist after six years, and why the maternal mental health policy puts vulnerable women at risk.
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…today they face the same discrimination they tirelessly help every mother fight against when pregnant or postpartum. The irony is unbelievable.
A UC San Diego doctor-mother on facing the same discrimination she fights for her patients, a story from the maternal mental health care campaign.
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I have become increasingly concerned over several years about patterns of behavior and leadership dynamics that, in my experience, create fear, suppress open communication, discourage innovation, and appear to selectively disadvantage individuals, those in protected groups and otherwise.
A clinician’s account of leadership patterns in the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry affecting maternal and reproductive mental health care.
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I remember talking to Dr. Brar for the first time when I was on the bathroom floor at Rady’s.
A mother’s story of the UC San Diego psychiatrist who helped her through postpartum crisis, and what’s lost when continuity of care ends.